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The World This Week - June 24th, 2011

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Greece’s fate hangs in the balance, the EU rocked to its core, while a row blows up over a statue of Alexander the Great. François Picard’s panel also explains why a hasty sentence could haunt Tunisians in their effort to convince the Swiss to hand over assets of the Ben Ali family.

THE WORLD THIS WEEK
  • Alison SMALE. Executive Editor, International Herald Tribune.
  • Sylvie KAUFFMANN. Managing Editor, Le Monde.
  • Nicholas NORBROOK. Managing Editor, The Africa Report.
  • David GAUTHIER-VILLARS. Paris Correspondent, Wall Street Journal.

Watch the second part.

THE WORLD THIS WEEK - From May 17 to 21 (part 2)
22/05/2010 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

THE WORLD THIS WEEK - From May 17 to 21 (part 2)

While Europe loses its bearings over banking, the US Congress approves landmark legislation...France denies speculation of a prisoner swap with Iran, but doubts linger...and was Thailand’s bloodbath avoidable? Joining François Picard in The World This Week: Alison Smale, International Herald Tribune executive editor; Eleanor Beardsley, Paris correspondent for National Public Radio in the US; Christopher Dickey of Newsweek magazine, and Patrice de Beer of the editorial website Open Democracy.
THE WORLD THIS WEEK - From May 17 to 21
22/05/2010 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

THE WORLD THIS WEEK - From May 17 to 21

While Europe loses its bearings over banking, the US Congress approves landmark legislation...France denies speculation of a prisoner swap with Iran, but doubts linger...and was Thailand’s bloodbath avoidable? Joining François Picard in The World This Week: Alison Smale, International Herald Tribune executive editor; Eleanor Beardsley, Paris correspondent for National Public Radio in the US; Christopher Dickey of Newsweek magazine, and Patrice de Beer of the editorial website Open Democracy.
THE WORLD THIS WEEK - From May 10th to 14th (part2)
18/05/2010 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

THE WORLD THIS WEEK - From May 10th to 14th (part2)

One billion dollar plan later, Europe’s markets tank again. Also in The World This Week, a UK coalition that’s got deficit issues of its own, how Hamid Karzai outsmarted the U.S. and the surprisingly solid run of Nigeria’s accidental president. Joining François Picard, Anne Bagamery of The International Herald Tribune, Tony Cross from Radio France International, Gerry Feehily of presseurop.eu and Nicholas Norbrook from The Africa Report.
THE WORLD THIS WEEK - From May 10th to 14th
14/05/2010 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

THE WORLD THIS WEEK - From May 10th to 14th

One billion dollar plan later, Europe’s markets tank again. Also in The World This Week, a UK coalition that’s got deficit issues of its own, how Hamid Karzai outsmarted the U.S. and the surprisingly solid run of Nigeria’s accidental president. Joining François Picard, Anne Bagamery of The International Herald Tribune, Tony Cross from Radio France International, Gerry Feehily of presseurop.eu and Nicholas Norbrook from The Africa Report.
THE WORLD THIS WEEK - From May 3rd to 7th (part 2)
07/05/2010 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

THE WORLD THIS WEEK - From May 3rd to 7th (part 2)

Greece and the euro braced for a lost decade, the profile of a would-be terror bomber, and the prospect of a hung parliament in the UK. Joining François Picard to discuss this week's headlines are Anne Bagamery of the International Herald Tribune, Crispian Balmer of the Reuters news agency, Dave Clark of Agence France-Presse, and Newsweek’s Christopher Dickey.

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